Chapter 6

Venue: Port Dickson

Last semester break, me and Mr.Teo decided to plan a trip to Port Dickson (The actual plan was to Desaru, Johor but due to transportation problem, we decided to change place) for holiday. We had always wanted to go holiday to a place where there are beaches but we don't know which one would be nicer as there are a few beach base vacation spots that are around Malacca such as Desaru, Port Dickson and Cherating. (We did not consider Island due to our budget restriction. ^^)  At last we choosed the cheapest and nearest destination of all the three but at first we did have doubt whether it will be fun or not if we go to PD but in the end we were satisfied. For the trip, we decided to ask our friend K.W to tag along.

Tanjung Bidara Main Enterance

•  In the past, Tanjung Bidara used to be a picnic spot for many family during the weekend. It's situated near Kem Terendak, an army camp in Malacca. Kids would go there and swim in the sea with their parents and the beach would be flooded with people. That's how I remember it...but...not anymore now. 

Tanjung Bidara Beach

• The beach is empty and dirty, so does the sea water, and also there was open burning when we were there. It's kind of heartache to see a once beautiful picnic spot becoming like this and also our childhood memories of the place is totally different from the reality look now. 

A Small Jetty At Tanjung Bidara

•  We were at the beach for about just half an hour and we decided to leave because there was nothing much to see or explore about the place.  (We paid RM 2 for the parking just for that.) We left Tanjung Bidara at around 12.30pm and finally we reached our destination (Port Dickson) at around 1.30pm but we can only check into the place that we are going to stay at 3pm. So, we decided to take a small tour to 'Wan Loong Temple' . It is consider as one of the biggest and most beautiful temple in Port Dickson. ( I repeat, biggest and most beautiful in PORT DICKSON not MALAYSIA, so don't expect it to be too fascinating. ^^)

The two enterance with two different names on it

• It is situated at just before the Roundabout that leads you to PD Town and Tol, if you are coming from Malacca but not by the high way. (See map for more info because it is hard for me to explain in words. ^^) You should not miss it as it has a exactly same beautiful restaurant just directly opposite it.

• The temple is surrounded by a 'Great Wall' like wall. The temple is famous not because of it's design but also is famous for.....Tortoise. Believe it or not there is a tortoise who is aged over 100 years old ( I do not have a photo of the tortoise here because K.W was taking the photo of it, so I thought I could take those photo from him but he lost his camera after the PD trip. Sadly.) living in the temple and the locals said if you were to touch the tortoise and pray in the temple, you will have good luck, especially if you are buying lottery. There were newspaper cuttings on the inside of the temple which report that there were a few people who came to touch the tortoise and pray won first prize of lottery for a few months. Believe the story or not, it's up to you. I believe the story about the tortoise but just not into the lottery part. ^^

The 'Great Wall' Like Wall Which you can walk on

• Those were photos from inside of the temple. Reminds you of Journey To The West? ^^ After sight seeing and taking photo, we felt hungry. So where's our next destination? Lunch at the beautiful looking restaurant just directly opposite the temple as we had no idea where to have our lunch and was too hungry to look for food.

The restaurant just opposite the temple (This view was snapped from the temple)

• This restaurant has the design of a temple and only the ground floor is restaurant while the other two floors are use for some primary school old boys society. The moment we step into the restaurant, we saw only two tables that had customers despite the number of tables there. I was starting to worry that maybe the food there wasn't nice but we decided to have our seats and wait to be serve by the waitress. When the waitress came to us, we asked her to suggest the type of Chinese cuisine that she can recommend to us but all those dishes that she recommended such as mantis prawn, cod fish, prawn and etc. was expensive dishes and we do not have the budget to order them so we decided to take matters into our own hand and picked our own dishes. ^^ 

Fried Rice

We ordered fried rice to go with our two other dishes .The fried rice taste good and not as what I expect when I had my first glance at it because normally those fried rice that I eat outside if it is having this kind of colour (almost look like normal plain rice), it either taste just like plain rice or the taste is not enough to satisfy my taste bud.

Lemon Chicken

The second dish that we ordered was Lemon chicken. It taste okay because the chicken meat wasn't too soft or soggy because of the lemon sauce. The chicken meat still maintain a little bit of crispiness.
Overall this is an okay dish for me.

Vege Fried With Oyster Sauce

The third dish is vege fried with oyster sauce. As I said before for my previous post (Dynasty Cafe post), a plate of vege that is cook in this way must be cook well to ensure that the oyster sauce will give a taste to the naturally tasteless vege. This dish meet the requirement.

• Overall the food there was nice and the price is affordable. Each of us had to pay RM 11.00 for the food there. After filling up our stomach, there was still around half an hour more before we can check into our room so we decided to go to Teluk Kemang Beach to have a first look at one the beaches that are at Port Dickson. We went there and saw many activity going around on the beach such as banana boat, kayaking, and people riding speedboat or jet ski. The beach and sea water around it looks clean.

Teluk Kemang Beach

• We sat on a few chairs that were put by the beaches for 15 minutes enjoying sea breeze, before we were told we need to pay to sit on the chair. No wonder nobody sat on it when we came. ^^ We left immediately after been told that because we are not willing to pay just to sit on the chair. ^^ 

The Chair that you need to pay for before you sit. ^^

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